A textile blog belonging to Kay Susan, living in a pleasant coastal town in the South of England. This blog shows examples of my work in creative embroidery.
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Kay Susan Warner/SMockerySmArt.
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

TIF - Fleming first steps

I 'googled' Alexander Fleming. (I cannot agree with the pundit who announced this week that Google is 'white bread for the mind'. Frankly, I think it's meat and two veg with a pudding and a glass of wine. Where else can you, with one typed word, travel the world collecting information without leaving home? I have been sent on all sorts of journeys of discovery as a result of information I have found by using Google. Clearly that academic has no imagination!) I won't put Fleming's biographical details here, if anyone is interested, they could do what I did and the benefits of his discovery to the world have been known for a long time. Of course, having 'googled' him, I was sent off on a tangent by pictures of the victims of his noxious compound - bacteria.

After browsing Google Images, I made a couple of sketches.

Next is to look at the sketches, simplify and work out some designs.

BUT I have to admit, I am already looking at those sketches and thinking about how I could make the bacteria! On the first sketch, there should be a complicated tube arrangement on the surface of the thing, a bit like worm casts, and I've already subconsciously modified that because as I drew it I was thinking about bugle beads, bullions and french knots! And there are so many possiblities in that wormy rat's tail....................

Wow. What an idea. I can't say I could even have dreamed of doing bacteria. When I first saw the picture on flickr (where it was very small) it made me think of cute tennis shoes! Then I realized it was something else and just had to take a better look. Very interesting.

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About Me

I'm a "hands on" granny (got the bus pass this year!) and I live in a pleasant South Coast seaside town. During my "middle years" I took City & Guilds Creative Embroidery Parts I and 2 and creative embroidery became my passion. I love fabric, fibres and threads. Best of all is the way I can change the appearance of a piece of cloth with the addition of a few lengths of thread and some simple embroidery stitches. I like to experiment and then I like to use the resultant odds and ends and samples to make three-dimensional articles such as boxes, containers and textile figures. I'm also an enthusiastic blogger in the textiles corner of the "web" meeting other textile artists on-line from all over the world. Isn't technology wonderful?!